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Checkerboard Play
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Checkerboard Play
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.
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Checkerboard Play
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Checkerboard Play
Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Robot Traffic Jam
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Robot Traffic Jam
Fifth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.
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Robot Traffic Jam
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Robot Traffic Jam
This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.
Fifth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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The Physicist Aptitude Test
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The Physicist Aptitude Test
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Research responsibilities of physicists, and common thinking patterns. Devise a questionnaire that measures career aptitude in physics.
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The Physicist Aptitude Test
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The Physicist Aptitude Test
Research responsibilities of physicists, and common thinking patterns. Devise a questionnaire that measures career aptitude in physics.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
Third Grade
Writing
In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.
Third Grade
Writing
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Robot Obstacle Course
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Robot Obstacle Course
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.
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Robot Obstacle Course
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Robot Obstacle Course
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Robot Dance Party
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Robot Dance Party
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.
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Robot Dance Party
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Robot Dance Party
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Building Brick Challenge: Find the Perfect Fit
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Building Brick Challenge: Find the Perfect Fit
Fourth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.
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Building Brick Challenge: Find the Perfect Fit
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Building Brick Challenge: Find the Perfect Fit
This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.
Fourth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
First Grade
Reading
In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.
First Grade
Reading
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Why Do Plants Wilt?
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Why Do Plants Wilt?
Kindergarten
Measurement
Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.
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Why Do Plants Wilt?
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Why Do Plants Wilt?
Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.
Kindergarten
Measurement
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Is There an "A" in Chess?
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Is There an "A" in Chess?
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Monitor the impact learning how to play chess has an academic performance. Divide subjects into two groups compare GPA
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Is There an "A" in Chess?
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Is There an "A" in Chess?
Monitor the impact learning how to play chess has an academic performance. Divide subjects into two groups compare GPA
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Survival Skills
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Survival Skills
Fourth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.
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Survival Skills
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Survival Skills
Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.
Fourth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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How Fiber Optics Work: Total Internal Reflection
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How Fiber Optics Work: Total Internal Reflection
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Kids learn how fiber optics work with a dramatic total internal reflection experiment using a fish tank, water, and a laser pointer.
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How Fiber Optics Work: Total Internal Reflection
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How Fiber Optics Work: Total Internal Reflection
Kids learn how fiber optics work with a dramatic total internal reflection experiment using a fish tank, water, and a laser pointer.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Mach Bands
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Mach Bands
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.
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Mach Bands
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Mach Bands
Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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The Meissner Effect: Magnetic Levitation Using a Superconductor
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The Meissner Effect: Magnetic Levitation Using a Superconductor
Measurement
Explore how you can achieve magnetic levitation with the Meissner Effect! This cool science project explains formation and applications of a superconductor.
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The Meissner Effect: Magnetic Levitation Using a Superconductor
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The Meissner Effect: Magnetic Levitation Using a Superconductor
Explore how you can achieve magnetic levitation with the Meissner Effect! This cool science project explains formation and applications of a superconductor.
Measurement
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Who Is Most Likely to Demonstrate Inattentional Blindness?
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Who Is Most Likely to Demonstrate Inattentional Blindness?
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.
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Who Is Most Likely to Demonstrate Inattentional Blindness?
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Who Is Most Likely to Demonstrate Inattentional Blindness?
This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Ability of Curry and Cinnamon to Inhibit Bacterial Growth
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Ability of Curry and Cinnamon to Inhibit Bacterial Growth
Writing
Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.
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Ability of Curry and Cinnamon to Inhibit Bacterial Growth
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Ability of Curry and Cinnamon to Inhibit Bacterial Growth
Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.
Writing
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Evaluating the Influence of Birth Order on Personality
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Evaluating the Influence of Birth Order on Personality
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Evaluate whether birth order influences personality.
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Evaluating the Influence of Birth Order on Personality
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Evaluating the Influence of Birth Order on Personality
Evaluate whether birth order influences personality.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Personality Profile of the Social Media Junkie
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Personality Profile of the Social Media Junkie
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this science fair project, students evaluate test subjects to determine if certain personality traits are more common in frequent users of social media.
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Personality Profile of the Social Media Junkie
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Personality Profile of the Social Media Junkie
In this science fair project, students evaluate test subjects to determine if certain personality traits are more common in frequent users of social media.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Psycholinguistics
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Psycholinguistics
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Science fair project that studies how the brain transforms man-made symbols into meaningful concepts.
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Psycholinguistics
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Psycholinguistics
Science fair project that studies how the brain transforms man-made symbols into meaningful concepts.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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TV Commercials and Advertising Psychology Experiment
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TV Commercials and Advertising Psychology Experiment
Life Science
In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.
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TV Commercials and Advertising Psychology Experiment
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TV Commercials and Advertising Psychology Experiment
In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.
Life Science
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Walking in Circles
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Walking in Circles
Sixth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This project will explore whether test subjects, deprived of points of reference, will, in attempting to walk a straight course, walk in circles.
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Walking in Circles
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Walking in Circles
This project will explore whether test subjects, deprived of points of reference, will, in attempting to walk a straight course, walk in circles.
Sixth Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Memory and Personality
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Memory and Personality
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This experiment examines whether social orientation (extroversion or introversion) is correlated with memory.
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Memory and Personality
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Memory and Personality
This experiment examines whether social orientation (extroversion or introversion) is correlated with memory.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Hot Finger: Experimenting with Biofeedback
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Hot Finger: Experimenting with Biofeedback
Measurement
Evaluate whether people can raise the temperature of their finger using the power of their thoughts.
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Hot Finger: Experimenting with Biofeedback
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Hot Finger: Experimenting with Biofeedback
Evaluate whether people can raise the temperature of their finger using the power of their thoughts.
Measurement
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Studying the Difference Between "Dog People" and "Cat People"
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Studying the Difference Between "Dog People" and "Cat People"
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This experiment evaluates if personality influences whether a person prefers dogs or cats.
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Studying the Difference Between "Dog People" and "Cat People"
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Studying the Difference Between "Dog People" and "Cat People"
This experiment evaluates if personality influences whether a person prefers dogs or cats.
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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What is a Wedge?
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What is a Wedge?
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.
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What is a Wedge?
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What is a Wedge?
What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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